Three brass buttons as worn by commissioned naval officers, military and civil branch 1843-91. They were obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition and belonged to members of the missing Franklin expedition. The buttons have a foul anchor and crown symbol and are marked on the reverse 'P & S FERMIN, 153 STRAND LONDON TREBLE GILT STANDARD'. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. The item is shown in the drawing by Edward Pulleyn (AAA3972). It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.